The 2010 Handforth Gardening Society Annual Village Show was held on Saturday July 17th. at St Mary's Church Hall, Handforth. Due to the new temporary location we could not accommodate all of the usual classes. So with much regret the committee decided that for this year we would not hold the Arts and Crafts; Painting and the new Photography Sections of the show. We expect to be able to re-instate those next year.
Despite this we still had nearly 300 entries across the sections. There were some very high quality exhibits, not least the wonderful carrots which won the childrens class for "three vegetables of the same variety" for Holly Shenton.
Other prize winners included:
The Handforth Gardening Society Trophy (for aggregate points by a HGS member): Brian Dunn.
The Open Award (for aggregate points by any exhibitor): Brian Dunn.
The Bill and Eileen Smith Trophy (best exhibit classes 1 - 56): David Gilbert.
The Pat Day Trophy (highest aggregate points in classes 56-70): Elizabeth Maddock.
The National Vegetable Society Trophy (Best exhibit classes 34 - 56): Simon Poucher.
The Don Hardisty Prize (Best exhibit in classes 12 - 20): David Gilbert.
The Top Vase Award (Best exhibit in class 25): Stan Hickson.
Best exhibit in classes 5 and 6: Avril Lethbridge.
Best exhibit in Section 6 (Flower arranging): Roz Heywood.
Best exhibit in Section 7 (Cooking): Roz Heywood
Prizes were presented by Alderman Barry Burkhill.
The Committee would like to thank all the Exhibitors and Judges for making the Handforth Village Show a success again!
Show schedule and entry form can be found at the attached link.